“…In other words, if the managers of these companies support athletics and professional sports, they will lead to increased brand equity of their company. This result of this study was congruent with the findings of past studies by Shank (2014), Buil, de Chernatony, and Martínez (2013), Misener and Doherty (2014), Florian (2017), and Ghani et al (2018) [2,12,23,24,38]. Specifically, Shank (2014) stated that athletes can build up a prompt association with the brand, as they are very famous among the customers [38].…”